This mysterious water from the Temple flowed east to the Arabah, the southern area between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. When this fresh water from the Temple flowed into the Dead Sea, or the stagnant waters, the waters there would become fresh. Many fish and other swarming creatures would live there. Wherever this river flowed, everything would come alive. These were the living waters for all the sea creatures.

“Those are unclean for you among the creatures that swarm upon the earth. That is the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard according to its kind, the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches one of them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.”

Once again if you touch any of these, even if they are dead, you are unclean until the evening, which is the simple punishment. This again is a simple list: